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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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2:55 am - music meme
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Winner in this round was (as usual) ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) idonotlikepeas. He wins Belgium. Bonus points for not only naming the songs and artist, but also actually guessing the covers I was listening to. (coffeechica also guessed that I was listening to Rufus Wainwright instead of The Beatles. :)
1. unwell, matchbox twenty
all day staring at the ceiling, making friends with shadows on my wall
2. staring at the sun, the offspring
baby life is like a ride on a freeway, dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way
3. like a rolling stone, bob dylan
once upon a time you dressed so fine, you threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
4. seek and destroy, metallica
scanning the scene in the city tonight. we're looking for you to start up a fight
5. crawling in the dark, hoobastank
i will dedicate and sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth of how my story's ending
6. the only living boy in new york, simon and garfunkel
tom, get your plane right on time, i know your part'll go fine
7. such great heights, the postal service
i am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
8. even flow, pearl jam
freezin, rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
9. the floor show, rocky horror picture show
it was great when it all began, i was a regular frankie fan
10. across the universe, the beatles
words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
11. supermodel, rupaul
you better work (covergirl), work it girl (give a twirl), do your thing on the runway
12. the way it is, bruce hornsby
standing in line, marking time, waiting for the welfare dime
13. you've got the love, candi staton
sometimes i feel like throwing my hands up in the air, i know i can count on you
14. baby it's cold outside, everyone
i really can't stay ... i've got to go away ... this evening's has been so very nice
15. i can't decide, scissor sisters
it's not easy having yourself a good time, greasing up those bets and bettors
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1:08 am - dryers
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Poll #1226427
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllI clean the lint compartment I measure the success of a round of laundry by the amount of lint generated
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| Sunday, July 13th, 2008
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3:00 am - music meme
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Time for this to go around again! Here's opening line(s) from fifteen songs on my playlist. Person who guesses the most correct song titles and artists is allowed to be smug for a week. Google is cheating.
1. all day staring at the ceiling, making friends with shadows on my wall
2. baby life is like a ride on a freeway, dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way
3. once upon a time you dressed so fine, you threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
4. scanning the scene in the city tonight. we're looking for you to start up a fight
5. i will dedicate and sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth of how my story's ending
6. tom, get your plane right on time, i know your part'll go fine
7. i am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
8. freezin, rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
9. it was great when it all began, i was a regular frankie fan
10. words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
11. you better work (covergirl), work it girl (give a twirl), do your thing on the runway
12. standing in line, marking time, waiting for the welfare dime
13. sometimes i feel like throwing my hands up in the air, i know i can count on you
14. i really can't stay ... i've got to go away ... this evening's has been so very nice
15. it's not easy having yourself a good time, greasing up those bets and bettors
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| Friday, July 11th, 2008
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2:09 am - what's my name - dj earworm
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This is a mashup of 22 songs by: Ace of Base, Mamas and the Papas, Brandy & Monica, Aaliyah, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Donna Summer, Maroon 5, Eminem, Alicia Keys, Destiny’s Child, Snoop Dogg, DMX, The Who, Madison Avenue, Eurythmics, Peter Gabriel, Irene Cara, Kanye West, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jason Mraz, Phil Collins.
Seriously.
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| Thursday, July 10th, 2008
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1:42 am - cfengine
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We use cfengine as our configuration management system. (Yes yes, puppet is actually really nifty, but I still like cfengine too.) We're actually spending some time right now reviewing and cleaning up our configs, which have gotten nastier and nastier over the last few years, with an eye towards making them clearer to understand and more importantly, to do exactly what we want them to do.
Today I told tehdely that our goal should be to have this system run and produce no output unless something actually changes. He actually met that goal, and summarized it quite well:
01:29 <@mbaehr> cfagent now runs on these hosts with no output :)
01:29 <@mbaehr> that's pretty... pretty like a well-formed, fibrous shit which requires no wiping
01:29 <@mbaehr> you know, when you look at the TP and you're like... wait, did i just crap?
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| Friday, June 20th, 2008
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2:50 pm - two more interview questions
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* Name ten Unix commands capable of sending mail.
* Name ten Unix commands capable of destroying your system.
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| Monday, June 16th, 2008
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11:04 pm - shaving
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Hello Lazyweb,
I need to buy a new electric shaver. I really only use the trimmer functionality, because I go for a week and a half without shaving my beard and then I want to leave some stubble, so the trimmer works great for that. Lately I've been feeling that my years-old shaver is going to give up the ghost, and I'm terrified that it's going to do so while I'm mid-shave.
I want to find a new electric shaver. I want something that does the blah blah close shave blah blah in the off-chance I'd ever *need* it, but I primarily want a good trimmer that'll get me down from a week-old beard to five o'clock shadow. I'm okay with buying two separate appliances if that's the best way to serve my needs. I'm okay with spending a little extra money for quality/something that comes in highly recommended.
Recommendations? I can google for this stuff but I'd prefer recs of things that people will vouch for.
Thank you!
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| Sunday, June 8th, 2008
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5:57 pm - editors and web requests
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I unscreened comments on the previous post, and I'm really impressed by how many responses there were. :P
For the record, the ones I came up with:
* Unix editors: emacs, vi, vim, joe, sed, ed, pico, nano, cat, perl
* Web requests: lynx, wget, curl, lwp-request, GET, POST, HEAD, telnet, nc, perl
(Yes, I know "cat" is cheating, but on a system where I've only had vi, I have resorted to using cat and echo with >> instead of using vi.)
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| Friday, June 6th, 2008
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1:12 am - interviews
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Yesterday I did my first interviews for sysadmins - one for an entry-level position and one for a senior level position. I wasn't quite sure what approach to take so I asked for suggestions, and one person had a list of technical interview questions that she used as a guide/prompt for some things. One of the easiest questions on the list was "name ten Unix commands."
We're a bit amused at the question because, seriously. So we decided to change it around a bit:
* Name ten Unix editors.
* Name ten commands capable of performing web requests.
Any takers? :) Looking elsewhere on the Internets is cheating, looking at your Terminal is cheating, spending more than five minutes thinking about each of these is no fair. Comments here are screened, and a gold star to whoever gets closest. :)
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| Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
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1:08 am - itunes random
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I discovered quite a while back that "random" on iTunes isn't quite random. More specifically to my problem, if I picked a particular song to start with, I'd go through exactly the same playlist; it's a random list, but it's the same random list!
So now I do something a little different. I'll pick the song I want, type in enough of the name of the song into the search bar to narrow it down. Then I'll just delete a few characters of what I typed in, a different amount and from a different part of the search string, each time. Like, if I was in the mood for "Fairytale of New York", I'd start there and then my playlist that day is anything where the title/artist/album has "fa" in the name. Then when I get tired of that, I'll re-seed the list, and so on. :)
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